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  Incomplete Information and Expected Performance Characteristics of Heat Engines

  By George Thomas, Preety Aneja, Ramandeep S. Johal

  Abstract: In this paper, a connection between Bayesian statistics and the optimal performance characteristics of thermodynamic heat cycles is proposed. In particular, the subjective ignorance about internal energy scales of the working medium, quantified as a prior distribution leads to an expected behaviour of heat cycles which shows some remarkable thermodynamic features. It is shown that efficiency at maximum work is closely related to Curzon-Ahlborn (CA) efficiency. This efficiency usually appears …

  Published in Trends in Mechanical Engineering & Technology · Vol. 4, Issue 3, 2014 · pp. 17–24 Read article →